Spring bed-bottom



(No Model.) Y A A. S. CLARK.

SPRING BED BOTTOM.

No. 357,064. Patented'feb. 1, 1887. v 1113.1, E I F WlTNElssEs `|Nv TOR ATTORN EYS n. mans. vmwumw. wmangm, o4 c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED S. CLARK, OF FARMINGTON, MINNESOTA.

rSPRING. BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent-No. 357.064,'dated'February 1, 1887.

Application tiled September 7, 1886. Serial No. 212,934. (No model.) l

To all whom it 11i/ay concern:

Beit known that I, ALFRED S. CLARK, a

.citizen of the United States, and a resident of tion of a bedstead provided with this invenvention, and isa top view thereof. Fig. 2is a plan view of the canvas cover detached,and shows two of the corners as they are eut for sewing and two corners sewed. Fig. 3 is a detail and a side view.

My invention relates to spring bed-bottoms;

and'it consists in the construction and novel combination of parts,as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

i `Referring by letter to the accompanying Slat-supporting strips D E. VThe two end slats,

GI, are secured in place by nails or pins K L, driven over them into the corner blocks,F,or, where no corner blocks are provided, into the upper edge ofthe slatsupporting strips,to prevent said end slats frombeing tipped over.

These pins K L are driven at such an angle as not to interfere with the removal of theend slats when necessary, nor with replacing said slats when desired.

. M N, &c.", are inverted-cone coil-springs, and are secured in or to the bed-slats in the usual manner.

P designates a canvas cover for the springs 5o M N, te., which is formed by cutting from each corner a triangular-shaped piece of the canvas and then folding the canvas at said cut corners so as to bring the cut edges evenly together, and the said edges are then stitched or sewed together on the under side of the cover, so that when puffed out the corners of the canvas cover will form hoods. Q,for the reception of the corner springs of the bed-bottom, which corner hoods, Q, hold the canvas cover 6o on the corner springs, and at the same time permit the removal of the canvas cover when it becomes necessary torremove it to wash or for other purposes. This canvas cover prevents the bedsprings from wearing, rustings thermattressmakes an even surface,and serves to catch line dust that may accumulate.

I am aware that it is not new to fasten the ends of bed-slats to the head and foot boards of a bed,and that it is also old to provide a canvas 7o cover for a spring bed-bottom, and therefore do vnot claim such devices, only in the construction and manner hereinafter specifically pointed out.

I am also aware that itis not new to provide a canvas covering for springs in a bed-bottom, the same being made from a square piece ofp material with its corners foldedvso as to make a` square easing to be vpulled down over the tops of the spring, and provided Withleather 83 loops for fastening the cover to the bed-frame, such as shown in Patent No. 322,162. p

Having described this invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 8 rIhe canvas cover for a spring bed-bottom described, formed from a blank, as shown in Fig. 2, with its corners cut off obliquely, and the parts thus cut united in angular shape to form corner hoods, whereby the Whole may be 9o held in position by the action of the corner springs, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

' ALFRED S. CLARK.

Witnesses:

BURR SPRFGUE, ALBERT BARBER. 

